What Does the Bible Say About Shorts?

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

Exodus 28:42 ESV / 7 helpful votes

You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the hips to the thighs;

Mark 16:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

1 John 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.

1 John 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, ...

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

John 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Matthew 5:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Jeremiah 4:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 19:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?”

Ezekiel 23:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

2 Kings 9:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 Timothy 5:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,

Acts 2:38 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

31 Bible Verses about Shorts

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Exodus 28:42 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Mark 16:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 4:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 23:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Kings 9:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 5:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 2:38 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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31 Bible Verses about Shorts

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Mark 16:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 4:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 23:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Exodus 28:42 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Mark 16:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 4:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 4:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 23:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Kings 9:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Timothy 5:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 2:38 ESV / 1 helpful vote